Modern adaptations CAN be really interesting - I love the Richard III with Ian McKellen, set in 1940s England; at one crucial point during a bombing his jeep gets trapped in all the debris, and he screams "A HORSE! A HORSE! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!" Heh. (Then again, the recent Australian Macbeth I linked above is ludicrous; how does Birnam wood come to Dunsinane in 2006? Duncan et al drive a lumber truck from Birnam Forestry Co. through the gates of Macbeth's hi-tech Scarface-style villa... geez.)
I haven't heard of "The Dead Father's Club", will check it out, thanks! Here's a recommendation in return: there's a British writer named Jasper Fforde who's written a series of novels about the literary detective Thursday Next. In the fourth one, "Something Rotten", she gets a visit from Hamlet himself, who is outraged to learn that people in the modern world think of him as a wishy-washy flip-floppy guy who can't make up his mind. So Hamlet vows to do something about it. Maybe. Then again, maybe he shouldn't, because... hey, there's a lot of factors to weigh here and... etc etc. (Also, according to Hamlet himself, the most realistic portrayal of him was done by... Mel Gibson.) The book also has an army of cloned Shakespeares. Lots of fun.
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I haven't heard of "The Dead Father's Club", will check it out, thanks! Here's a recommendation in return: there's a British writer named Jasper Fforde who's written a series of novels about the literary detective Thursday Next. In the fourth one, "Something Rotten", she gets a visit from Hamlet himself, who is outraged to learn that people in the modern world think of him as a wishy-washy flip-floppy guy who can't make up his mind. So Hamlet vows to do something about it. Maybe. Then again, maybe he shouldn't, because... hey, there's a lot of factors to weigh here and... etc etc. (Also, according to Hamlet himself, the most realistic portrayal of him was done by... Mel Gibson.) The book also has an army of cloned Shakespeares. Lots of fun.